The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1887-04-30

iects of wine suppers. yachts and fast
horses, but they are stingy about the
wives dresses and the children's shoes.
That man has made that which might
be healthful influence usurper OF
his affections. and he has married il,
and he is guilty of moral bigamy.
Under this process the wife, whatever
her features, becomes uninteresting
and homely. He becomes critical Of
her, does not like the dress, does not
like the way she arranges her hair, is
amazed that he ever was SO unroman-
tic as to offer her hand and heart.
There are secret societies where
membership always involves domestic
shipwreck. Tell me that a man has
joined a certain kind, and tell me
nothing more about him for ten years,
and / will write his history If he be
still alive. The man is a wine guzzler,
his wife broken hearted or prematurely
old, his fortune gone or reduced, and
his home mere name In directory.
Another test by which you can find
whether your secret society is right or
ular occupation. l can understand
how through such an institution a
man can reach commercial success. L
know some men have formed their
best business relations through such
channel. IL the secret society has adj
vantaged you in an honorable calling
ii is good one. But has your credit
faileds Are bargain makers more
anxious how they trust you with a
bale of goods? Have the men whose
names were down in the commercial
agency A before they entered the
society been going down since in
commercial standings Then look out.
The third test by which you may
know whether the society TO which you
belong is good or bad is this: What
is its effect on your sense Of moral and
religious obligationg Now, If should
take the names Of all the people in this
audience this morning and put them
on a roll, and then | should lay that
roll back Of this organ, and hundred
years from now some one should take
that roll and call 1t from A 20 u, there
would not one of you answer. | say
that any society that makes me forget
that fact is bad society. Whend go
20 Chicago l am sometimes perplexed
at Buffalo, as / suppose many travel
ers are, as 20 whether il Is better TO
take the Lake Shore route or the Mich
igan Central, equally expeditions and
equally safe, getting TO their destina-
ton at the same time. But suppose
that hear that on one route the track
is torn up, the bridges are down and
the switches are unlocked, il will not
take me great while to decide which
road 10 take.
Now, here are two roads in the fu.
ture-the Christian and the unchris-
tian, the safe and the unsafe Any
institution or any association that con-
fuses my ideas in regard TO that fact
is bad institution and bad associa-
ton.
Oh, man astray, God help you'll am
going 10 make very stout rope. You
know that sometimes "A rope maker
will take very small thread and wind
them together until after while they
become ship cable. And am going
10 take some very small, delicate
threads and wind them together until
they make very stout rope. / will
take all the memories OF the marriage
day a thread of laughter, thread OF
light, thread of banqueting, thread
Of congratulation. and | twist them
together and ] have one strand. Then
take a thread Of the hour of the first
advent in your house, thread of the
darkness that preceded, and thread
OF the light that followed, and thread
OF the beautiful scarf that little child
used 10 wear as she bounded out at
eyentide 20 greet you, and then thread
OF the beautiful dress in which you
laid her away for the resurrection;
and then twist ali these threads to-
gether, and have another strand.
Then | take a thread OF the scarlet
robe of a suffering Christ, and thread
OF the white raiment OF your loved
ones before the throne, and a string of
the harp cherubic, and string of the
harp seraphic, and | twist them all to-
gether, and | have third strand.
"Oh," you say, 'either strand is
enough 20 hold fast worldl
No; will take these strands and l
will twist them together, and one end
of that rope | Will fasten, not TO the
communion table, for IL shall be re-
moved; not TO pillar OF the organ,
for that Will crumble IN the ages; but